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The preeminent Australian novelist of his generation, Tim Winton is the author of the bestselling novels Cloudstreet, The Riders, and Dirt Music, among many other books. He has won the Miles Franklin Literary Award four times (for Shallows, Cloudstreet, Dirt Music, and Breath) and has twice been short-listed for the Booker Prize (for The Riders and Dirt Music). He lives in Western Australia.
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Tim Winton is consistently voted Australia's most beloved novelist. In books
such as Cloudstreet, Dirt Music and his new collection of short
stories, The Turning, he's shown an exquisite feel for the language, the
smell, the very pulse of Australia. It's never easy to coax him away from the
shores of WA, the source of so much of his inspiration, and we're delighted to
have done so tonight. Ladies and gentlemen, Tim Winton.
Andrew Denton: And that's it. You can go now.
Tim: Oh, good. I'm out.
Andrew: Now, Tim, welcome.
Tim: Thanks, mate.
Andrew: You write so much about the sea in your books. And, you know, a lot
of kids, when they're teenagers, they're into fast cars or getting off their
face, but you were into the sea.
Tim: Mm-hm.
Andrew: What's down there?
Tim: Well, less than you think and more than you think. Do you know what I
mean? When you're a teenager you feel overcome by all these problems. Everything
seems enormous. Everything seems big. You seem tiny and bewildered. So, in a
way, jumping into the ocean and diving deep was a way of getting over myself,
you know, a way of leaving myself, not worrying that I wasn't tall enough, that
I wasn't skinny enough, that I wasn't smart ...
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